16. How much less he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water.
17. “I will show you, listen to me; and what I have seen, I will tell—
18. what wise men have told, and they have not hidden that which is from their ancestors,
19. to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed through their midst.
20. “All of the wicked one’s days he is writhing, even through the number of years that are laid up for the tyrant.
21. Sounds of terror are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come against him.
22. He cannot trust that he will return from darkness, and he himself is destined for the sword.